On Jul 31, 2011, at 8:20 AM, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 05:19:07AM -0700, Erik Trimble wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Yes. You can attach a ZIL or L2ARC device anytime after the pool is created.
> 
> Excellent.

:-)

> 
>> Also, I think you want an Intel 320, NOT the 311, for use as a ZIL.  The  
>> 320 includes capacitors, so if you lose power, your ZIL doesn't lose  
>> data.  The 311 DOESN'T include capacitors.

FYI, these drives have not yet passed qualification testing at Nexenta.

> This is basically just a test system for hybrid pools, will
> be on UPS in production, and mostly read-only.

Please test thoroughly, prior to production.

> 
> The nice advantage of Nexenta core + napp-it is that it includes
> apache + mysql + php, which saves the need for a dedicated machine
> or virtual guest.
> 
> The appliance will host some 600+ k small (few MBytes) files. 
> Does zfs need any special tuning for this case?

This should work fine out-of-the-box.
  -- richard

> 
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